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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a single capitalist country has eliminated homelessness. Why is that? Why are life expectancies falling in the US?

Also, Berlin is in the middle of East Germany.

The wall was to separate what was basically an island of Western control from the rest of East Germany. It was kind of a weird political situation.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USSR “solved” homelessness putting people in prisons and psychiatric hospital… and even then there still was homeless people. Authoritarianism doesn't work.

And Berlin west was a weird political situation, but my argument still holds. People flee DPRK or China…

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The US puts more people in prison than the USSR ever did, yet its homeless population is huge.

And there isn't a giant wall around China lol

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Authoritarianism doesn't work, whether capitalistic or communist.

And travel is very restricted in China.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems to be working so far. 🙄

China's life expectancies have recently surpassed the US. Did you know that?